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Politics & Business

The penny drops in Canada – Undercutting of resident IT workers by intra-company transfers addressed with immediate effect

The penny drops in Australia – Living away from home allowance for migrant workers scrapped to prevent undercutting of resident workers and raise an estimated $659.4m revenue in 2015-16

Intra-company transfers sleight of hand at the Home Office – Immigration figures to drop 20,000 as Home Office 'massages' numbers

Britain’s got talent – Accenture plans to hire 2,000 staff across the UK in 2014

IT consultancies are collapsing in increasing numbers – Exaro Insolvency Index

Low morale in IT departments increases with outsourcing and is causing problems

It is called investing in people……Net-A-Porter technology graduate scheme “…Applicants must have science backgrounds, but beyond that are not expected to have any specific knowledge of software or coding languages”

Lloyds may have replaced 1,300 UK IT workers with Indian contractors

Joined up immigration policy in the UK Government

David Cameron’s speech on immigration 14th April 2011 ……”So I completely reject the idea that our new immigration rules will damage our economy.”

Higher Education Statistics Agency – Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education in the United Kingdom Academic year 2011/2012. The report shows that Computer Science graduates continue to have the highest level of unemployment (14.9%) of any course 6 months after graduating.

Public Accounts Committee report on the Immigration Points Based System published on 17th May 2011 a damning indictment of UKBA management and Government Policy.

Third of government website internships 'unpaid'

Tax from plumbers helps fund tax free allowances for migrant workers

Keith Vaz and winning the argument on immigration but who is arguing for the resident worker?

Damian Green speech 02/02/2012 Making immigration work for Britain

Wikileaks

American Embassy London 2009-07-01 - UK EFFORTS TO MANAGE MIGRATION AS RISING UNEMPLOYMENT LOOMS (C-RE9-00762) “MAC chairman professor Metcalf confirms that while many companies used intra-company transfers legitimately and brought workers to the UK for up to 6 months, some workers have stayed for three years, undercutting labor costs and displacing local workers.”

American Consulate Chennai 2009-03-13 – NON-IMMIGRANT VISA FRAUD - B1/B2 and H-1B are the top two categories for fraud

European countries set more realistic minimum pay levels

Holland EUR 50,183 minimum salary for non EU migrant workers

Problems in the USA

Video - Obama confronted on H-1B use during Google+ hangout

How the U.S Lost out on iPhone work

Overseas Call Centers Target Of Anti-Outsourcing Bill

Programming jobs fall, despite Labor Department's outlook

A lesson in immigration and offshoring for 2012 hopefuls

Large-Scale Visa Fraud Alleged at Infosys in US

Indian Outsourcing Firms Use H-1B to Displace U.S High-Tech Workforce

The H-1B and L-1 Visa programs: Out of Control in the US

H1B Visas Lower US Programmer Pay

In the news

TW - Sir Stewart Rose - Stop whining about migrants and get a job

CW - Marks & Spencer extends Cognizant outsourcing deal

CW - Marks & Spencer cuts in-house IT staff

CW - Public sector IT staff sees largest cut in 25 years

CW - Cost cutting is still the main reason to outsource IT

CW - Why should I study computer science when the jobs go offshore?

CW - Are UK IT students better off being trained in India?

CW - Is offshoring still making students of Computer Science the largest unemployed group of graduates?

CW - The Indian IT suppliers are still on steroids

CW - UKBA publishes 2011 salary rates by mistake – no problem pull them and put the lower 2008 ones back

CW - Indian companies are top importers of IT workers

CW - Half of UK IT professional have received no training in the last five years

CW - Over a quarter of UK IT professionals have had enough

DT - Immigration cap loophole sees massive surge

DT - Immigration does keep Britons out of jobs, government committee admits

DT - Graduate gloom as 83 students apply for every vacancy

 

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